Michael Cook * Full disclosure: the author is a member of Opus Dei. mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. Four Corners, a flagship program on Australia’s ABC, broadcast a scathing attack on two private schools in Sydney on Monday evening. Their crime:
Danny Kingsley Visiting Fellow, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science Australian National University Unless you’ve spent your summer on a digital detox, you’ve probably heard of ChatGPT: the latest AI chatbot taking the world by storm. Recent discussion about ChatGPT has focused on the risk
Alwyn Poole Innovative Education Consultants innovativeeducation.co.nz The cabinet reshuffle was predictable. Hipkins is, so far, our very worst Minister of Education. He has appointed someone who may well be worse: Jan Tinetti. Hipkins says: “As a former school principal and education expert new education minister is uniquely placed
Blayne Haggart Associate Professor of Political Science Brock University Of all the reactions elicited by ChatGPT, the chatbot from the American for-profit company OpenAI that produces grammatically correct responses to natural-language queries, few have matched those of educators and academics. Academic publishers have moved to ban ChatGPT from being listed
Brian Lucey Professor of International Finance and Commodities Trinity College Dublin Michael Dowling Professor of Finance Dublin City University Some of the world’s biggest academic journal publishers have banned or curbed their authors from using the advanced chatbot, ChatGPT. Because the bot uses information from the internet to produce
Helen Houghton Co-leader New Conservative I wonder what criteria a person uses when they decide a leader is trustworthy. Is it from a recent statement where Prime Minister Chris Hipkins had no direction to be able to share with the New Zealand public because they are still yet to create
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Former Education Minister and now Prime Minister Chris Hipkins must front up and explain the poorly communicated overkill decision to close every Auckland school. Mayor Wayne Brown has been smashed for late decision making and poor communication during the Auckland floods. The Prime Minister is
Were you worried about 3 Waters? Were you worried about a separate Maori health authority? Were you worried about The Canterbury Regional Council (Ngai Tahu Representation) Bill? Were you deeply worried about Co-Governance? I have good news for you! The good news is there is no need to worry about
All schools and early childhood centres and tertiaries are to shut for a week in Auckland. Auckland principals say the Education Ministry has ordered a week-long shut down of all of the region’s education organisations. They say all Auckland schools, early childhood services and tertiary institutes must remain shut
Family First familyfirst.org.nz PARENT GUIDE 2023 The PARENT GUIDE is entitled “THE BATTLE FOR YOUR CHILD’S INNOCENCE: How to protect your children from the state’s radical sexuality and gender ideologies in schools“. We’ve already highlighted just how radical the curriculum is which the Government wants
Alwyn Poole Innovative Education Consultants innovativeeducation.co.nz At this time of year (any year but with significant inflation presently accentuating things) the families we most need back into schools, organised and learning will have HUGE cost barriers. While the uniform cost at Middle School West Auckland is zero, most
Some years ago, I was accosted on the street by a bunch of striking teachers, demanding that I support their campaign for yet another wage rise. I pointed out, first, that their pay was my taxes, so a pay rise for them meant less money for me. I also pointed
A nurse rose as they entered and came to attention before the Director. “What’s the lesson this afternoon?” he asked. “We had Elementary Sex for the first forty minutes,” she answered. “But now it’s switched over to Elementary Class Consciousness.” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Aldous Huxley intended
Bob McCoskrie, of Family First, commented on the leaders and deputy leaders of Labour and National yesterday. We have a new prime minister, but if you thought that the radical social agenda would pause, or “reset Labour to the right” as some commentators have laughingly tried to claim, you just
I know the whole “Grooming” thing can sound hyperbolic to the point of foil-hat stuff — until the news goes right ahead and proves that it’s true. Once again, the difference between “conspiracy theory” and “headlines” is about a few weeks at best. So, when I argue that schools are
Chris Baillie ACT Education spokesperson Good teachers play a huge role in children’s upbringing and deserve to be appropriately remunerated. ACT has a plan to ensure the best teachers get paid more. Teachers play such an important role in our society; a good education is what sets someone up
